good night means? at that point in the flight, the plane is already on automatic pilot. that plane went on to automatic pilot probably a minute and a half if not sooner after it took off from kuala lumpur. it s basically it s like you leaving the one person s office and going into another person s office. because you ve been told to go from a to b. you re literally saying, thanks very much. good night. and then the next transmission would normally have been the pilot, what we call the npf. the non-pilot flying, he would have switched his radio to vietnam s wavelength and calmed out, ho chi minh control, this is heading xy speed xy and vietnam wool have acknowledged it. so this all right. good night it s a pleasantry at the end of a radio communication which frankly if you listen to air traffic control in the
these reports today? well, sean, i am digging on the reports that the pilot may have deliberately taken the plane off course. now, that is a reuters course, what it says basically is that the plane looked like it was flying on an aviation corridor. i m putting up a map, the aviation map, we have this. this is an aviation chart, you can see all the lines and then the dots. those are way points. they help to define the different navigation routes. this would almost be like a highway in the sky? in other words, planes fly particular paths and then they follow the same paths and replay information back that the planes are following, by the way, a lot of turbulence at this area. it is a sky, planes can fly where they want. this is the path that according to the reuters report the plane
united states, sometimes you get a pleasant good night, good-bye, good morning, sometimes you don t. now given that, would the expectation be that this pilot would then say, hello, to the next airspace, like you said? ho chi minh and if that takes place who would have than kind of recording or data reflecting that that conversation may have happened? well, that s the that s a very, very interesting point. because the next very often you know about a plane incident or a plane accident certainly with air france 447, many of them, we knew about this, because the next person doesn t hear from them. and vietnam goes back to malaysia and said, hang on. what happened to 370? we haven t heard from them yet. and that s that is frequently the way in which you do discover that something has gone wrong. so i m imagining now the vietnamese will be they ve
so only two of them are on the same specific path that would head in the direction. this report that a pilot or someone may have intentionally taken the plane on a path, this kind of shows some other evidence because none of these are on a specific path. and at the end of the day if i m a pilot i don t have to fly any of these routes, sean, all i have to do is put in a gps coordinate of where i want to go and i can turn in tha direction. if i m not playing by the rules that is what i m going to do. it is mysterious that the pilot had control of the transponder, but this is way off cour course, which is a problem here. if we have the two incidents and put them together, and the way points, way off course. the transponder is off. then i think that goes more towards the theory that somehow a deliberate sabotage by some of the pilots or somebody on the plane. i think we have to be very careful sean, this is a lot of information coming from other sourcings. for example, the radar, that
air plane he makes that communication. his acars turned off. transponder turned off. i m looking at the pilot. thank you very much, a short break and continue this conversation. much more on these new details involving this mysterious disappearance of this airplane. humans